Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... passion for (addiction to, one might properly say) hyper-Byzantine political machinations has, obviously, not been extirpated by the second restoraton of Teng Hsiao-ping and the near-sanctification of his essentially rational policies ...
... passion for (addiction to, one might properly say) hyper-Byzantine political machinations has, obviously, not been extirpated by the second restoraton of Teng Hsiao-ping and the near-sanctification of his essentially rational policies ...
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... passion with me, and it has stuck by me, for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded ... passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from ...
... passion with me, and it has stuck by me, for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded ... passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from ...
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... passion than a grand opera. — ISRAEL ZANGWIUL, Romeo and Juliet The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. — BENJAMIN DISRAELI The reason lovers are never weary of each other is because they are always talking about ...
... passion than a grand opera. — ISRAEL ZANGWIUL, Romeo and Juliet The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. — BENJAMIN DISRAELI The reason lovers are never weary of each other is because they are always talking about ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |